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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year

Law360’s Practice Groups of the Year highlights up to five practice groups that notched the biggest litigation victories or deals of the year. Winners are recognized for the size, complexity and significance of the deals or litigation they worked on.
  • February 04, 2019

    Private Equity Group Of The Year: Dechert

    Dechert LLP's private equity practice is consistently on the cutting edge of the industry, guiding important deals for major names like Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC Private Ltd. and Sun Capital Partners to earn a place as one of Law360's 2018 Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 01, 2019

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Arnold & Porter

    In the bellwether case in a multidistrict litigation alleging that a testosterone replacement therapy injured patients, Arnold & Porter's product liability group secured a win for Endo Pharmaceuticals, one of the achievements that landed them among Law360's Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 01, 2019

    International Trade Group Of The Year: BakerHostetler

    BakerHostetler landed a major victory at the U.S. International Trade Commission last year that shielded the American newspaper industry from possibly buckling under the costs of more expensive foreign newsprint, earning the firm a spot among Law360's International Trade Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 01, 2019

    Energy Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP last year represented Concho Resources Inc. in its $9.5 billion bid to buy another Permian Basin driller and facilitated Williams Cos. Ltd.'s $10.5 billion acquisition of Williams Partners LP, earning it a spot on Law360's Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 01, 2019

    Health Care Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP advised Aetna on its $77 billion acquisition by CVS, helped McKesson close two deals worth $1.53 billion, and shepherded a $1.1 billion IPO for an innovative health care and technology company, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Health Care Groups of the Year.

  • February 01, 2019

    Private Equity Group Of The Year: Debevoise & Plimpton

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP spent the last year helping major private equity firms complete billions of dollars worth of deals, including a $4.1 billion agreement involving the acquisition and subsequent splitting up of Kindred Healthcare, landing the firm on Law360's list of 2018 Private Equity Groups of the Year.

  • February 01, 2019

    White Collar Group Of The Year: Bracewell

    All eyes were on Bracewell LLP in 2018 when the firm was tapped for the delicate job of deciding which documents prosecutors could use of those seized from President Donald Trump's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen, making the firm one of Law360's White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2019

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP racked up a high-stakes victory at the U.S. Supreme Court on jurisdictional questions in Clean Water Rule suits and convinced the justices to keep alive a challenge to the scope of the Endangered Species Act, landing the firm a spot among Law360's 2018 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2019

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin

    Sidley Austin LLP's insurance practice group handled a string of major recent insurance industry transactions, including a $67 billion acquisition by Cigna Corp. of a pharmacy benefits manager, a $2.6 billion deal to take Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. private, and the $2 billion sale of Hartford Holdings Inc.'s life insurance and annuity business, earning the group a spot on the list of Law360's 2018 Insurance Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2019

    Employment Group Of The Year: Seyfarth

    Seyfarth Shaw LLP won two U.S. Supreme Court rulings last year, including the landmark Epic Systems Corp v. Lewis decision blessing employers' use of class-action waivers, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2019

    Consumer Protection Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn

    Winston & Strawn LLP's consumer protection group successfully defended J.M. Smucker subsidiary Big Heart Pet Brands at the Sixth Circuit over alleged deceptive marketing practices and beat a suit against Edible Arrangements over alleged spam texts, earning it recognition as one of Law360's Consumer Protection Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2019

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells' insurance group last year successfully shielded a Chubb Ltd. subsidiary from having to cover a chunk of a bank's $212 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, earning it recognition, for the third year in a row, as one of Law360's Insurance Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2019

    Environmental Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP's role in getting an international tribunal to declare fraudulent a roughly $9.5 billion award against Chevron in an Ecuadorian pollution case earned it a spot among Law360's 2018 Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2019

    Food & Beverage Group Of The Year: Stueve Siegel

    Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP secured the largest agricultural settlement in U.S. history last year, in which Syngenta paid $1.51 billion to corn producers and others harmed by sales of its genetically modified corn seed, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Food and Beverage Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2019

    Consumer Protection Group Of The Year: Troutman Sanders

    Troutman Sanders LLP landed a major appellate victory against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2018 that marked just the second time an appeals court has declined to enforce one of the consumer watchdog's so-called civil investigative demands, landing the firm among Law360's Consumer Protection Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2019

    Employment Group Of The Year: Sanford Heisler

    Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP has helped women fight sexual harassment and discrimination in both big law and higher education, securing a $3.1 million settlement in the high-profile bias suit against Chadbourne & Parke LLP and a $1.25 million verdict for a former Columbia professor, landing it among Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2019

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's diverse capital markets practice shined across a wide gamut of deals over the past year, guiding initial public offerings for issuers ranging from home security giant ADT Inc. to file storage standout Dropbox Inc., earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2019

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Anderson Kill

    Anderson Kill PC's insurance recovery group scored a series of wins last year that unlocked more than $100 million dollars in coverage for its clients and broke new ground by helping to define cybersecurity policies before the Second Circuit and defending "all sums" allocation in New York state court, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2019

    Consumer Protection Group Of The Year: Motley Rice

    Motley Rice LLC got the California Supreme Court to let stand a $1.15 billion verdict finding several companies promoted the use of lead pigment in homes, and began work on an opioid case that could be among the largest-ever civil cases, earning it a place as one of Law360's Consumer Protection Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2019

    Food & Beverage Group Of The Year: Sheppard Mullin

    Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP's food and beverage team showed its expertise in many legal specialties with transactional and litigation accomplishments that include securing favorable outcomes for Starbucks Corp. and Taco Bell, landing it among Law360's 2018 Food and Beverage Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2019

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells secured a win before the D.C. Circuit in its bid to remove a client's site from the National Priorities List of environmental cleanup sites and helped the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority comply with environmental standards and deal with the catastrophic aftermath of hurricanes Maria and Irma, landing the firm among Law360's 2018 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2019

    Employment Group Of The Year: Outten & Golden

    Outten & Golden LLP convinced a jury that Computer Sciences Corp. misclassified its workers as overtime exempt and reached multimillion-dollar settlements on behalf of workers accusing Uber Technologies Inc. and Target Corp. of discrimination, earning it a spot as one of Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2019

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP is no stranger to big moments on major stages in the public offering space, and its work guiding a historic direct listing for Spotify and multimillion-dollar IPOs for a Siemens AG unit and Farfetch Ltd. earned the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2019

    Banking Group Of The Year: Weil

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP helped complete some of the biggest merger and acquisition deals in 2018, including advising Barclays, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America in providing $49 billion of financing to CVS Health for its acquisition of Aetna, helping land it among Law360's Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2019

    Food & Beverage Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    With two industry-impacting wins for Foster Poultry Farms Inc. and Nestle Purina PetCare Co. on the litigation side, and major divestitures and deals for Nestle on the corporate side, Mayer Brown LLP's success across the board last year landed it a spot among Law360's Food & Beverage Groups of the Year.

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